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Category: East Ender

What if we actually took a smart tack on SmartTrack?

December 12, 2016December 19, 2017 Stephen Wickens 2 Comments

You probably received a flyer this fall urging you to “Shape the future of transportation in your community.” It was an invitation to open houses (three of them local-ish) put on by provincial transit agency Metrolinx, which plans to install a fourth track and overhead wires on the GO corridor for its Regional Express Rail […]

East Enders finding transit has become the bitter way

November 29, 2016December 19, 2017 Stephen Wickens 15 Comments

A home close to the subway was top priority for Ann-Marie Colacino and her husband when they were house-hunting in 2013. And after enduring several bidding wars they finally got one a 10-minute walk to Coxwell station. But less than two years after becoming my neighbours, they gave up on transit to ride bikes to […]

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